Archives for October, 2009
Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 is released today, Thursday 29 October. Ubuntu has been around for a while, of course. I’ve been using it as my operating system of choice for about four and a half years and I’m writing this post because I’m so totally impressed with the new version. I just want to say [...]
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I’m posting this to give people who want to write some idea what you can say to personalise your email. The quoted bit is Reprieve’s standar email. I added the bit below in bold. From David Marsden <david.marsden@enfieldclubhouse.org.uk>To Andrew Love MPSubject URGENT: protect Akmal ShaikhMessage Dear Andy Love, MP I am very concerned at the [...]
I am rapt! Tight and warm in my sleeping bag, I stare out at the night sky. Everything is perfectly clear. My fellow hikers are nearby and in the distance we can hear coyotes. They are neither barking nor howling, something in between. Calling to each other. Louder. LOUDER! In the corner of my eye [...]
This is really a follow-up to my earlier Once A Red, Always A Red post from three and a half years ago. I was going to leave it as a comment to Andy’s reply to my original post, but figured it probably merited it’s own permalink! The only United match I’ve been to in recent [...]
As it’s almost four years and three months to the very day since the 7/7 London bombings, I thought this was as good a time as any to look back into the internet archive and see what I was thinking and blogging about then. I guess what’s got me thinking about this is the recent [...]
Suffice it to say, no one should have so much alone time that few of his friends knew what was bothering him. Isolation is a set up for future problems. Source Interesting point about isolation. Some pretty shocking research statistics from Australia here, too: “Mentally ill endure lives of loneliness and exclusion“. I don’t think [...]